Burnt Cork or the Amateur Minstrel
by Frank Dumont
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Collectible; Fine
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Wehman Bros, 1881. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. A beautiful, crisp copy of the 1881 1st edition. Clean, bright and Near Fine in its pictorial beige wrappers. 12mo, 114 pgs. plus wonderful related ads. "A Collection of Humorous Speeches, End Men's Jokes, Conundrums, Reciations and Farces, Finales for "First Part", and a full and complete description of everything necessary to arrange a minstrel entertainment". An unusually well-preserved copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8056
- Title
- Burnt Cork or the Amateur Minstrel
- Author
- Frank Dumont
- Format/Binding
- Original Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Wehman Bros
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- Rare minstrel, rare African-American, rare Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; African-American;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...